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SUMMARY:School Lockdowns:  Ensuring Maximum Security and Code Compliance
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Wm. David Akins\, Director of Product Management\, Securitech Group\, Inc.; with Mark J. Berger\, President and Chief Product Officer\, Securitech Group\, Inc.\nSponsored by SSI Guardian\, LLC a subsidiary of School Specialty\, Inc. \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the School Safety community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \nThere are many different solutions and approaches to accomplishing a school lockdown. In this webinar\, these methods were explained and evaluated by how well and how safely they meet the need for instant lockdown security\, while still offering simplicity and speed of use\, accessibility to First Responders\, and operational longevity and reliability that all schools require during normal everyday use. \nSchools are special areas of public assembly that are often difficult to instantly secure in an emergency\, while still maintaining an intrinsically safe and code compliant environment for the building occupants. Understanding how different hardware elements must work together is critical to achieving a safe and secure environment for students\, staff and visitors alike. David Akins and Mark J. Berger\, both with Securitech Group\, Inc.\, removed the mystery surrounding the correct uses of special locking devices and also help you better assess security and life safety conditions in your school and college facility. \nTopics included: \n\n How to recognize and identify the problems presented by different types of door openings in schools.\nHow to use the recommendations of the Homeland Security Primer to Design Safe School Projects to assess their security plans.\nHow to apply the relevance of CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environment Design) principles.\n\nSchool administrators\, district superintendents\, teachers\, facility managers\, security directors\, and building architects will benefit from this webinar. \nDave Akins is the Director of Product Management for Securitech. His background in the door and hardware industry spans over four decades.  In that time\, he has worked as a locksmith\, lock manufacturer\, special-locking product developer\, national sales manager. He is a specialized door hardware consultant.  Dave is active in the New York metro area for the Red Cross\, and he is the District Emergency Coordinator for Nassau County ARES and the president of ARCECS radio. He also is active in Nassau County OEM/RACES emergency radio communications. \n  \n  \nMark Berger is the President of Securitech\, and serves as Chair of the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association Codes Committee. He is also the Vice-Chair of ASIS School Safety and Security Council\, and he authored the AIA accredited class “Safe School Locking.” Mark holds several patents in the locking field\, and he had participated in the design and development of many innovative solutions\, including the first FEMA 361 approved windstorm shelter locking devices. \n  \n  \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \nAbout SSI Guardian\, LLC a subsidiary of School Specialty\, Inc.\nFor more than 56 years\, School Specialty has served the educational community as a leading solutions provider. Through its newest subsidiary\, SSI Guardian\, that service continues in the most important area: school safety. Setting the new industry standard\, SSI Guardian advanced training curriculum is evidenced-based and PhD-authored to meet academic standards and is currently part of an emergency management course taught at Methodist University. This advanced program is customized to meet your school’s specific needs and is delivered in a live interactive setting by some of America’s premier protective security experts whom have protected US Presidents\, high ranking dignitaries and Hollywood mega stars. Through its comprehensive approach\, SSI Guardian offers tier one consulting\, advanced training and product and technology solutions. Our children and our teachers deserve nothing less than the best to achieve the safest school environment possible.
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SUMMARY:Leading Your School Culture Shift
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Derek L. McCoy\, Principal\, West Rowan Middle School\nSponsored by Learning Bird \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Leadership 3.0 community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \n“Culture eats strategy for breakfast\, operational excellence for lunch and everything else for dinner.” Quote attributed to Peter Drucker. \nNo matter the innovations\, approaches or changes lead learners devise or create for schools\, one significant fact is ever prevalent – people follow the culture of a school\, not strategies. As we build more creative learning and teaching opportunities\, whether it is instructional strategies or digital resources\, we first have to ensure that we are creating a healthy\, growing school culture centered on student learning and teacher development. This attention to school culture needs to be ongoing and requires planning\, input\, and monitoring from the entire school community. No school initiative can launch or sustain unless a healthy culture is in place to receive and nurture it. \nDerek L. McCoy\, Principal at West Rowan Middle School\, focused on the characteristics of healthy\, innovative cultures and the high impact strategies that lead learner teams can use to build the healthy\, responsive cultures our schools need to help students maximize their learning and growth. \nReflect on these key issues around the culture at your own schools: \n\nDo we have a healthy\, evolving culture?\nAre we maximizing PD?\nWhat role does technology play in school culture?\n\nLearn about the practical\, strategic steps that his school is going through now to build an innovative learning culture focused on student growth and teacher development. This webinar is designed for leaders at all levels – teachers\, assistant principals\, principals and central office personnel. \nDerek McCoy is the principal of West Rowan Middle School in Rowan-Salisbury Schools. He presents and conducts workshops on improving student learning and achievement\, increasing teaching efficacy\, and creating a learning environment that will prepare students for their future. Derek’s approach involves innovative instructional design/best practices and developing and implementing relevant\, student-centered\, and flexible learning practices. He was named as a 2014 Digital Principal of the Year by NASSP and has received recognitions from other groups for his efforts to use social media and technology to help connect learners with best practices and experts\, create impactful collaboration networks and ultimately help grow all schools. Follow Derek on Twitter @mccoyderek. \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \n Learning Bird provides teachers with the content\, tools and professional development to easily guide each student to success on their own personal learning path. With thousands of lessons that offer multiple approaches on each topic\, teachers can keep students engaged even when they encounter an obstacle. Our lessons are trustworthy\, vetted by real teachers\, and aligned to local curriculum. Learning Bird moves students in grades 6-12 toward better outcomes\, higher graduation rates\, and increased college and career readiness.
URL:https://home.edweb.net/webinar/leading-school-culture-shift/
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SUMMARY:The Technology Balancing Act: Using Technology to Bring Intentionality and Purpose into the Early Childhood Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kelly Elmore\, Educational Technology Consultant\, Kaplan Early Learning Co.\nSponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Classroom Management for Early Learning community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions.. \nThis webinar addressed four hurdles that make appropriate use of technology in the early childhood classroom difficult for many to embrace. Learn more about these obstacles and issues and then look toward solutions or compromise\, to create meaningful learning experiences for today’s young children. \nThe topics discussed: \n\nScreen time: The elephant in the room. How much is too much and just how do we measure “screen time” today?\nBest Practices: We will discuss ways to bridge the mental gap between best practices in the traditional sense and how that knowledge is the most powerful tool for measuring best technology practices in your classroom.\nDigital Literacy: How do we go about teaching digital literacy when we aren’t even sure that we’ve mastered it ourselves? We’ll address just what this term means and how it can transform how you approach the use of technology in your classroom every day.\nKISS: Keep it Simple for your Students. Let’s face it; money can be a barrier\, or a convenient excuse\, for putting off integrating technology into your classroom. Our final topic will leave you with multiple approaches that can allow technology to be implemented in your classroom with little or no money required.\n\n  \nKelly L. Elmore graduated from Appalachian State University with a BS in Middle Grades Education. She earned her National Board Certification in Language Arts\, Middle Grades while teaching in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System. Her career path led to Kaplan Early Learning Company where she merchandised and developed products for young children for more than a decade. Several years ago\, she discovered her true passion for early childhood learning in her position as Educational Technology Consultant for Kaplan. In this position\, her responsibilities include technology product development\, customer and team training\, and post-sales support. \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \nKaplan Early Learning Company is a leading international provider of products and services that enhance children’s learning.
URL:https://home.edweb.net/webinar/the-technology-balancing-act-using-technology-to-bring-intentionality-and-purpose-into-the-early-childhood-classroom/
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SUMMARY:Social Media and Cell Phones – Today’s Tools to Connect with Families This Summer
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lisa Nielsen\, Director of Digital Engagement & Professional Learning\, NYCDOE Division of Instructional and Information Technology\nHosted by Common Sense Education \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Digital Classroom community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \nHow can you stay connected with parents and students over the summer? In this webinar\, Lisa Nielsen shared practical step-by-step advice on how to leverage social media in a responsible way. She demonstrated best practices for using these social media platforms to help eliminate the summer educational disconnect: \n\nFacebook\nTwitter\nInstagram\nAnd other platforms!\n\nLearn how to use today’s tools to connect with families this summer. This webinar is designed for K-12 educators. \n  \nLisa Nielsen is The Innovative Educator. She found school boring and irrelevant. That ticked her off so she became a public school educator who works to help change that for others. \nLisa began her career in the 90’s as a librarian\, which was a perfect fit\, enabling her to create a vibrant oasis in Harlem where students could find their passions with support from the community. Since then she has served as a literacy coach\, ed-tech professional development manager and technology innovation manager. Today Lisa is the Director of Digital Engagement & Professional Learning at the NYCDOE Division of Instructional and Information Technology. \nLisa writes for and speaks to audiences across the globe about the future of education but she is best known for her award-winning blog\, The Innovative Educator. Her writing and work are also featured in places such as The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, T.H.E. Journal\, Tech & Learning\, Smartblogs\, ISTE Connects\, Huffington Post\, MindShift\, Leading & Learning\, Answers.com and she is the author the book Teaching Generation Text. Follow Lisa on Twitter @InnovativeEdu. \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \n Common Sense Education provides teachers and schools with free research-based classroom tools to help students harness technology for learning and life. Our K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum and interactive games teach students how to make safe\, smart\, and ethical decisions in the digital world. And our revolutionary educational rating system\, Common Sense Graphite\, helps educators discover\, use\, and share high-quality digital products that propel student learning.
URL:https://home.edweb.net/webinar/social-media-cell-phones-connect-families-summer/
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SUMMARY:Empower\, Enable\, Engage: Create the Learning Environment Your Students Have Always Dreamed Of
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Carol Webb\, Learning Commons Facilitator\, Turner Valley School\, Alberta\, Canada\nSponsored by Nureva \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Fostering Student Collaboration  community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \nAre you interested in transforming your learning environment into a vibrant\, student-centered space? Providing students with a safe\, creatively enriched place to pursue project-based learning (PBL) can help them discover and develop a passion for learning that reaches far beyond the classroom walls. By using new game-changing technology to support an innovative approach to experiential learning\, you can better empower and engage students on their own learning journey. \nTopics included: \n\nHow new technology and tools can help you add real-world relevance to student learning\nHow design thinking fosters collaboration and communication\, and can even lead students to discover a lifelong passion\nHow student-led learning makes it easier to develop cross-curricular competencies such as critical thinking\, problem solving\, and information management\nHow teachers at Turner Valley School are taking student-led learning further\, using design thinking and the Reggio Emilia principle of space as the third teacher\n\nLearn concrete ideas of what you can do tomorrow to begin the transformation in your own classroom. \n  \nCarol Webb is learning commons facilitator at Turner Valley School in Turner Valley\, Alberta\, and has been instrumental as an informal leader in rolling out educational transformation to the professional learning community in the Foothills School Division. Carol continues to work to support other learning commons facilitators and teachers in bringing meaningful and innovative experiences to students to enhance learning. Carol brings collaborative experiences from system-wide collaboration that supports the somewhat radical changes required to be successful in a changing learning culture. She recently won the 2016 Trustees Award for Excellence in Supporting Student Success. \n  \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \nNureva Inc. develops education solutions that foster a joy for learning. The company focuses on delighting customers with simple\, thoughtful hardware\, software and services. A passion for deep customer understanding and a commitment to innovation drive the company’s product roadmap.
URL:https://home.edweb.net/webinar/create-learning-environment-students-dream-of/
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SUMMARY:Putting Manipulatives to Work Part 1: Developing Place Value Concepts in K-5 with Rekenreks\, Base Ten Blocks\, and Place Value Chips
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Sara Delano Moore\, educational consultant at SDM Learning\nSponsored by ETA hand2mind \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Building Understanding in Mathematics community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \nSchools and teachers often find manipulatives gathering dust in the back of a closet.  Our Summer webinar 2016 series is an opportunity to explore new uses for familiar manipulatives as well as learn about new tools to add to your toolkit. \nIn part one of our three part series\, Dr. Sara Delano Moore shared manipulatives to use to develop understanding of place value in grades K-5.  Learn about building a progression beginning with Rekenreks through base ten blocks to place value chips. \n  \nDr. Sara Delano Moore is an educational consultant at SDM Learning.  Sara focuses on helping teachers and students understand mathematics as a coherent and connected discipline.  An experienced teacher and nationally recognized speaker\, her work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning.  Sara’s interests include building conceptual understanding of mathematics to support procedural fluency and applications\, incorporating engaging literature into mathematics & science instruction\, and connecting mathematics to engineering design in meaningful ways. Learn more about her education and experience at sdmlearning.com.  Follow her on Twitter @saradelanomoore. \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n ETA hand2mind believes that educating students is the most important job in the world. Our story is all about the Educators\, Teachers\, Parents and Partners who share our goal of helping children learn and succeed. We believe real success in the classroom happens when students learn by doing. We are excited to welcome you on this professional journey and hope that together we can innovate\, initiate & invigorate teaching conversations around the country.
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SUMMARY:A Year in the Life of a New Makerspace
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michelle Luhtala\, Head Librarian\, New Canaan High School\, CT \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Emerging Tech community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions.\n \nWhether you’ve had a makerspace for years\, don’t have one yet\, or are just getting started\, this webinar has something for you! The presenter chronicled her experience jump-starting maker culture in her learning community. Funding\, curricular connections\, equipment\, and celebrations\, and challenges were addressed. \nThis webinar\, presented by Michelle Luhtala\, Head Librarian at New Canaan High School (CT)\, will benefit K-12 school librarians\, classroom teachers\, and curriculum leaders. Michelle will field questions from the audience after the presentation. \n  \n \n  \nMichelle Luhtala is the Head Librarian at New Canaan High School in New Canaan\, Connecticut. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award\, the 2010 National School Library Program of the Year (NSLPY)\, and the Connecticut Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala. \n  \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING
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SUMMARY:Expand Your Toolkit: Teaching Strategies for Deeper Math Learning
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Courtney Foreman\, Professional Development Specialist\, DreamBox Learning\nSponsored by DreamBox Learning \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Blended Learning community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \nThe road to conceptual understanding in mathematics is difficult. Through this journey\, our students are required to demonstrate this understanding at every step. With the integration of technology in the classroom\, blended learning can support student growth and understanding in math. \nOf course\, preparing students to model math concepts is problematic if teachers are struggling with the concepts themselves. Blended classrooms can provide support for both the learner and teacher. Want to learn how? \nIn this webinar\, Courtney Foreman showed you how to expand your teaching toolkit by exploring new strategies and techniques for introducing traditionally difficult mathematics concepts to your students. Explore tools to promote the following in your blended classroom: \n\nHow to implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem-solving\nHow to use and connect mathematical representations\nHow to build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding\n\nLearn new teaching strategies to support deeper math learning for your students. This webinar will benefit K-8 teachers\, coaches\, math coaches and specialists. \n  \n Courtney Foreman is a Professional Development Specialist at DreamBox Learning. Serving 18 years in Texas public education\, Courtney taught grades K-8. She offers 12 years of experience as an Instructional Mathematics Coach\, implementing curriculum structured around math talk\, conceptual understanding\, and student-centered mathematics. Courtney has facilitated workshops on a national\, regional\, and state level by presenting at the NCTM\, ASCD\, and CAMT conferences. She enjoys working with educators across the nation to reach\, teach\, and engage their math students. \n  \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \n DreamBox Learning Math offers a groundbreaking combination of intelligent adaptive learning\, rigorous elementary mathematics curriculum\, and motivating learning environment. The innovative DreamBox platform captures every decision a student makes while working in the program and adjusts the student’s learning path appropriately\, providing millions of individualized learning paths\, each one tailored to a student’s unique needs.
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SUMMARY:Effective Transition Planning for Students with ASD
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nina Finkler M.Ed.\, LDT/C\, BCBA\, president of Nina Finkler Autism Services\nSponsored by Monarch Center for Autism\, STAR Autism Support\, and VizZle \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nWithin 24 hours after the live event\, a CE certificate is emailed to live attendees who logged in online with their email address. To get your CE certificate for logging in live by phone\, or for watching the recording\, join the Teaching Students with Autism community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. As a member of the community\, you’ll also have access to additional resources and online discussions. \nThe main purpose of IDEA is “to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to … prepare them for further education\, employment and independent living…” In order for the last part to be accomplished\, effective transition planning must occur. \nWhile transition planning is one of the most important parts of a student’s education\, it is often misunderstood and mishandled. IDEA states that transition planning is required to start at age 16\, but the truth is planning and discussion about post-21 should start as early as possible. The earlier the team (school\, parent and student) starts discussing transition\, the earlier the student’s educational program can incorporate instruction. Many skills will require years to introduce\, develop\, master and generalize. Waiting too long may limit what a student can achieve during the years of guaranteed entitlement. \nThe process of transition planning should not fall solely on the school district. Educators can  help parents play an active role in planning as well as providing opportunities for instruction within the home and community. When having the discussion about transition\, there are five critical skill areas that must be considered and included in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP).  These areas are: \n\nCommunication\nSocialization\nBehavior Skills\nIndependence\nLeisure Skills\n\nThis webinar focused on these five critical areas and their importance. Specific strategies for incorporating these skills into the IEP\, classroom\, and home will be discussed. Finally\, discussion about how educators can help parents understand their role in the transition process will occur. \nThis recorded webinar will benefit preschool through high school educators\, CST\, and administrators. \nNina Finkler is the president of Nina Finkler Autism Services\, LLC based in East Windsor\, New Jersey. Ms. Finkler has over twenty years of experience working in the field of autism. Her experience includes extensive practical application of applied behavior analysis\, curriculum development\, professional/parent training\, consultation\, and assessment. Ms. Finkler has presented at both the state and national levels on various topics including effective teaching strategies for students with autism\, behavior management strategies\, and educational assessment. She holds a Master’s degree in Special Education from Rutgers University and is a New Jersey licensed Learning Consultant and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Ms. Finkler is on the advisory board of National Autism Resources. \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \nMonarch Center for Autism\, a division of Bellefaire JCB\, is located in Cleveland\, Ohio. Monarch offers a comprehensive array of programs and services for individuals ages three through adulthood with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Highlights\, which incorporate Monarch’s visual language treatment model\, include a preschool; day school for children\, adolescents & young adults; transition education program; summer & extended school year programs; therapeutic residential treatment program; adult vocational & supported living programs; and community training. \n \n \nSTAR Autism Support (SAS) provides curriculum materials\, workshops and training to school and agency staff who work with students with autism. Our mission is to help others successfully implement research-based applied behavior analysis (ABA) techniques. We want every child with autism to receive effective instruction! \n \n \nVizZle provides a library of more than 14\,000 lessons and the tools and media to customize them or create your own from scratch. The lessons can be tailored to any grade level\, assigned to any student\, and played on iPad or Android tablets\, laptop or desktop computers. Data is tracked automatically. This award-winning software is developed collaboratively with educators.
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SUMMARY:Diverse Strategies for Communication with Dual Language Learners
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Jennifer J. Chen\, Associate Professor of Early Childhood-Family Studies at Kean University\, New Jersey\nSponsored by Gryphon House \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nIf you view the recording and would like a CE certificate\, join the Early Learning Book Chats community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. \nEducating the nation’s rapidly rising child population of dual language learners (DLLs) is as much a challenge as it is an opportunity for improving our practice with them. Many English-speaking young children struggle with learning to communicate effectively. DLLs face a double challenge of learning not only the academics (content/task knowledge and skills)\, but also the social imperatives associated with communication. To be successful in school\, they must navigate the cultural\, linguistic\, academic\, and social terrains. The book\, Connecting Right from the Start: Fostering Effective Communication with Dual Language Learners\, was conceived to offer a wide variety of strategies for fostering effective communication skills in DLLs that are needed to succeed academically and socially now and in the future. It also includes strategies for DLLs with special needs. \nLearning objectives include: \n\nUnderstanding how diverse early childhood settings are\nConnecting theories of second-language acquisition\, Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences\, and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory to practice\nApplying effective strategies of assessment of and for DLLs’ learning\nApplying developmentally\, culturally\, and linguistically appropriate strategies to address DLLs’ diverse communication needs\nUnderstanding the importance of and applying effective strategies for building strong school-family-community partnerships\n\nThis recorded webinar is designed to meet the needs of early childhood teachers\, infant through third grade and those educators who work with special needs. \n  \nDr. Jennifer J. Chen is an associate professor of early childhood and family studies at Kean University in New Jersey\, where she was the President of NJ Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. The author of the new book\, Connecting Right from the Start: Fostering Effective Communication with Dual Language Learners\, Dr. Chen has contributed more than 40 other scholarly publications to the field. A Fulbright Scholar in 2013-14 in Hong Kong\, Dr. Chen earned her Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Harvard University. \n  \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \nGryphon House\, Inc. is an award-winning publisher of early childhood resources for teachers and parents.
URL:https://home.edweb.net/webinar/diverse-strategies-communication-dual-language-learners/
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Character Education: Interview with Medal of Honor Recipient Leroy Petry (Afghanistan)
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation\nSponsored by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\nIf you view the recording and would like a CE certificate\, join the Lessons of Personal Bravery and Self-Sacrifice community and go to the Webinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz. \nMedal of Honor Recipient Leroy Petry told his personal story of service in Afghanistan during this special webinar presented by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation (CMOHF). This recorded interview is an exciting learning opportunity for students. \nOn May 26\, 2008\, Petry’s platoon was conducting combat operations against an armed enemy in Paktya\, Afghanistan. Reacting to the need of another assault squad\, he moved to their aid to provide supervision and guidance. Although wounded by a round which went through both of his legs\, Petry still managed to lead a comrade to cover. When a grenade landed just a few feet from them\, Petry risked his life to reach and secure the live grenade and throw it away from his fellow Rangers. As he released the grenade\, it detonated and amputated his right hand. \nDuring this webinar\, Mr. Petry discussed what the Medal of Honor means to him and how it has affected his life\, adding his unique perspective on the values celebrated by the CMOHF Character Development Program. Cathy Metcalf\, Vice President of Education for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation\, moderated the session. \n  \n Staff Sergeant Leroy A. Petry distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action with an armed enemy in the vicinity of Paktya Province\, Afghanistan\, on May 26\, 2008. Petry was a Weapons Squad Leader with D Company\, 2nd Battalion\, 75th Ranger Regiment. Staff Sergeant Petry’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service\, and reflect great credit upon himself\, 75th Ranger Regiment\, and the United States Army.  Learn more about Staff Sergeant Petry’s service. \n  \n  \nCathy Ehlers-Metcalf joined the Medal of Honor Character Development Program as Vice President of Education in 2015 after serving as a Regional Curriculum Trainer. Cathy taught college-level writing for over 33 years in Southern California. Cathy’s father was a World War II Medal of Honor Recipient. Those experiences gave Cathy a great respect for both the Medal of Honor and a passion for service to our Nation’s Veterans. \n  \n  \n  \nWATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING\n  \nThe Medal of Honor Character Development Program is a free resource that teaches character through stories of the Medal of Honor recipients. The CDP is a cross-curriculum supplement and complies with National/State Common Core standards. The Medal of Honor Character Development Program incorporates the ideals of courage and selfless service into the middle and high school curriculum to build character and promote responsible citizenship.  The program is FREE and includes 50+ lesson plans supported by over 100 video vignettes of the Medal of Honor Recipients themselves\, as well as videos of hometown heroes selected by the Medal of Honor Recipients as “Citizen Heroes.”
URL:https://home.edweb.net/webinar/interview-medal-honor-recipient-leroy-petry-afghanistan/
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